LSEG ENGINEERING CODILITY ASSESSMENT 2027 CHEATING - RANT
So I am from a tier - 3 engineering college(India), where most companies that hire for software engineering roles pay in the range of 3-7 LPA with hardly few product based companies that pay above 10 LPA, selectng 2-3 students from a pool of 800ish students in various IT branches.
Recently, LSEG had announced its hiring for Software Engineers - 2027 (11 LPA + other benefits) and had invited our college too like last few years.
The first round what they call Codility assessment, held on Codility platform was COMPLETELY UNPROCTORED throughout the duration of the test. YES! They even mentioned it before the test and just said that they would be identifying AI purely based on the code quality!! The 6 questions were very hard, containing LLD+DSA questions, except for 2 bug-fixing questions, that I felt were somewhat on par with standard DSA questions usually asked in interviews of companies of this tier. So I solved only the 2 bug-fixing questions and 1 MCQ that they had asked, and my score came as 38%.
Having been in the same classroom for past 3 years, and having taken part in various instances, such as competitions, college labwork, workshops, college placement-training and placement-tests held OFFLINE by college, I am very very well-aware of the ACTUAL coding capabilities of my classmates. While I got a rejection mail, my classmate who could hardly understand basic codes and solve leetcode easy problems with great difficulty made it to the 2nd round!! I cannot imagine how many more might have gotten in in the same manner. This has been making me feel so depressed and question all the hard-work I have been putting in since past 2+ years to land a good job.
What depresses me the most is that, INSPITE OF BEING VERY WELL-AWARE OF STUDENTS CHEATING, SUCH REPUTED COMPANIES STILL OPT FOR CONDUCTING ASSESSMENTS ONLINE, INSTEAD OF KEEPING THESE ROUNDS STRICLY IN COLLEGE IN A WELL-PROCTORED MANNER!!!
To the fuckers that cheated and did/did not get selected into further rounds:
Just keep this in mind that you are not only committing the felony of using unethical means (I WOULD NOT be yapping like this, if the test was designed to be an open book/ AI-aided test, BUT IT WAS NOT.) in a test that has been asked to be taken strictly without any external aid by the company, BUT YOU ARE ALSO SNATCHING AWAY AN OPPORTUNITY FROM A COUNTLESS HARDWORKING INDIVIDUALS FROM TIER 3 COLLLEGES (WHERE THESE KIND OF COMPANIES AND THIS LEVEL OF PACKAGE IS AS RARE AS A BLUE-MOON), AND MAYBE HIGHER TIER COLLEGES TOO, THAT HAVE BEEN PUTTING IN THEIR BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS TO RISE UP DURING THESE HARD TIMES OF RECESSION. ALL I WANNA SAY IS, JUST REMEMBER NEWTON'S THIRD LAW OF MOTION, WHICH ANY SANE PERSON WOULD SURELY FIND OUT TO BE APPLICABLE TO NOT JUST MOTION BUT A LOT OF OTHER ASPECTS IN THIS WORLD:
"TO EVERY ACTION, THERE IS AN EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION." OR FOR THIS SITUATION, I'D SAY
"WHAT YOU SOW, SO SHALL YOU REAP."
Just because it takes a long long time, it does not mean that one won't have to face the consequences of one's own deeds.
I rest my case.